There was a very quiet start to the Premier Soccer League season for Moroka Swallows, who drew 0-0 with Golden Arrows. Technical Director Eddie Lewis, formerly of West Ham United and Leyton Orient, was said to be have been pleased with the clean sheet, if not the result. Another former West Ham player who is [. Click to continue reading...

The latest batch of new members of Les Rosbifs includes a batch of coaches who have not been mentioned previously. Slipping under the radar for the past few months was Craig Short. The former Everton, Derby County and Blackburn Rovers defender is assistant manager of Ferencvaros in Hungary who, as we all know, are back [. Click to continue reading...

(Risultati di calcio: Manchester-Malaysia 2-0)
Anche gli inglesi del Manchester United si preparano per la nuova stagione, che sarà la prima senza la stella portoghese, il Pallone d'Oro, Cristiano Ronaldo. Ma, altri giocatori sono arrivati (tra i quali Michael Owen dal Newcastle), anche se ci si aspettava il botto di mercato che, almeno finora non si è ancora sentito dalle parti dell'Old Trafford. Click to continue reading...

Early goals from Michael Owen Federico Macheda gave Manchester United a comprehensive 2-0 victory over a Malaysian XI in Kuala Lampur earlier today. Owen's goal marks his second for United in two games. United is now on to South Korea for the next leg of their pre-season tour of Asia. Team Line-ups Manchester United: Foster (Kuszczak 46); Neville [. Click to continue reading...

Early goals from Michael Owen Federico Macheda gave Manchester United a comprehensive 2-0 victory over a Malaysian XI in Kuala Lampur earlier today. Owen's goal marks his second for United in two games. United is now on to South Korea for the next leg of their pre-season tour of Asia. Check out more game highlights and soccer [. Click to continue reading...

Michael Owen was given a start in Manchester United second game of Asia tour 2009. The new number seven repaid the faith of Sir Alex Ferguson by scoring the second goal of the game against Malaysia...
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Manchester United arrived in Malaysia on the first leg of their Asia Tour 2009. This was an amazing time for the Malaysian United fans and it showed in the many pictures that can be found.
The Asia Tour 2009 is expected to cover Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and China. However, due to unrest in Jakarta, the Indonesian leg have been canceled and instead Manchester United will play a rematch with the Malaysia XI on Monday evening (20th July). Click to continue reading...

Manchester United started their pre-season tour of Asia with a 3-2 win over a tenacious Malaysian XI earltier today. New signing Michael Owen notched his first goal as a United player in the 85′ with the game tied 2-2. Wayne Rooney and Nani had previously scored for the tourists. Team Line-ups Manchester United: Van der Sar (Foster [. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United started their Asia Tour 2009 today at Malaysia against a Malaysia FA XI team, and to be honest it was a rather shaky start by the England champions, final score 3-2. Although United were leading 2-1 at half time, with goals from Wayne Rooney and Nani, and a goal back from Malaysia's striker [. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United arrived in Malaysia on the first leg of their Asia Tour 2009. This was an amazing time for the Malaysian United fans and it showed in the many pictures that can be found.
The Asia Tour 2009 is expected to cover Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and China. However, due to unrest in Jakarta, the Indonesian leg have been canceled and instead Manchester United will play a rematch with the Malaysia XI on Monday evening (20th July). Click to continue reading...

Seven Offside and WCB posts you might have missed this week: A very early bath in Brazil Iraq finally gets a proper home game Your European football kickoff calendar How can you be in CONCACAF but not FIFA? Toronto fans to go thirsty Emmanuel Adenbayor and The BeautIful South Like father, like son Click to continue reading...

First Stop On The Tour:
United kicks off its tour of Asia this summer when the club faces a Malaysian XI on July 18th at the magnificent Bukit Jalil National Stadium at the country's National Sports Complex near Kuala Lumpur.
Kick off is 10:30 BST.
Eight Years Later:
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pulsating Champions League tie, English clubs dominance in that competition, trouble in Malaysia, Manchester City and Luton all feature in this week's Good, the Bad and the Ugly section of languagecaster's football podcast. Click on the links below to find out more on all of these stories.

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The Malaysian F1 GP race was suspended due to torrential tropical storms that made driving impossible & dangerous. With 24 laps still left the skies opened up on the Sapang circuit & stopped...
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Here's Malaysia's brand new 2009/10 kit. It will be worn for the first time during next month's 2008 ASEAN Football Championship (also known as the Tiger Cup 2008 and the AFF Suzuki Cup 2008). The Malaysian national team are nicknamed the Tigers (after the national symbol of Malaysia). Their main regional rivalries are against [. Click to continue reading...

Match Details for Friendly Match against Malaysia What: Malaysia vs Singapore When: Saturday 29 November 2008 Kick Off: 8.45pm Where: MBPJ Stadium, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Jakartacasual Click to continue reading...

Singapore fans will not expect any changes in the squad as Raddy has stated that he will pick the usual faces that had been with the Lions in the last AFF Cup and the recent World Cup Qualifiers. He will trim down the squad to 22 players and will be announce next week. Singapore will face Vietnam [.. Click to continue reading...

SIngapore finished the tournament sitting root bottom of the table after they suffered another heavy defeats at the hand of the Aussie.Australia got away with a 6-0 scoreline. Whereas in Group A played yesterday,Myanmar down Laos 7-0 and qualify for the semi-final and will face Australia.Vietnam also secure their place in the last four as group [. Click to continue reading...

Prior to reading article on Agu held‘for ransom',I was astounded as i have never heard of a football club demanding a refund for player not playing up to their satisfaction?PDRM reason was Agu Camir failure to score for their club but,agu did scored for them in a 7-0 trouncing against Kuala Lumpur in [. Click to continue reading...

Defending champions Singapore have been drawn in Group A alongside Myanmar, co-hosts Indonesia and the qualifying round's runner-up for December's AFF Suzuki Cup 2008.Group A matches will be taking place in Indonesia.The lions will also face the qualifiers runner-up.As usual,top two teams will qualify for semi-final. Click to continue reading...

While we debate the legal and ethical implications of 6+5, Malaysian football has gone ahead and implemented 11+0. That means all foreigners will be booted out of the Malaysian league next season. "We are not at the status of English Premier League, our league is not matured yet, therefore some drastic measures must be taken to improve [. Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match:Chelsea are meeting Malaysia in a friendly match tuesday 29th of July. Watch the highlights and livestream here Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

Ex-West Ham and West Brom player Peter Butler is still only 41 years old but he has already coached in five different countries.
After leaving his post as reserve coach of Halifax in 2001, Butler moved to Australia where he worked with Sorrento Soccer Club in Perth. In 2003, the former tough-tackling midfielder took over Malaysian club Sabah before heading to Singapore and eight months as head coach of Singapore Armed Forces. Click to continue reading...

The recent appointment of B. Sathianathan as the national coach of the Malaysian national team was a direct result of his team's success in the 39th Merdeka Tournament.

But as he succinctly pointed out, nothing has changed as far as his outlook on Malaysian football is concerned and with his feet firmly on the ground, he hopes that the national side will tread new paths in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers as well as the SEA Games in Thailand later in the year.

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The FA of Malaysia (FAM) have extended their well-regard appreciation to Education Minister Dato' Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein for stepping in to resolve the issues of the eight players involved in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U19 qualifiers in November.

Dato' Azzuddin Ahmad, the general secretary of the FAM said that the national body is highly appreciative of the cooperation from the Education Ministry in allowing the players to represent the country and provide leeway for them to do so.

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There are big plans being formulated for the national Under-16 team based in Bukit Jalil Sports School following their recent win of the Youth Cup.

The national U16 squad won the Youth Cup – which is really for U19 players - when they beat Kuala Lumpur 1-0 in the final with the only goal of the match coming off Tamil Arasu.

Enroute, they had beaten Selangor 4-1 on aggregate in the semi-finals.

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PETALING JAYA: The seeds of Kedah's unprecedented treble were sown almost three years ago. And on Saturday night, it all came to fruition.

Having already bagged the Super League and FA Cup, the youthful Kedah side added the Malaysia Cup to their trophy cabinet when they defeated Perak 3-0 in the final on Saturday.

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Sometime this week, it is expected that Datuk Azzuddin Ahmad will be announced as the new Secretary General of FAM. The other 2 candidates, Tan Sri Aseh Che Mat, the current FAM disciplinary board chairman, and FA of Selangor (FAS) secretary Hamidin Mohd Amin, apparently don't have a prayer, as Sultan Ahmad Shah (the president) favours Datuk Azzuddin. Click to continue reading...

I am totally shocked and outraged by this. All i want to know is, what does our esteemed Umno Youth deputy chief know about developing and promoting soccer in this country? What are his qualifications? Can someone enlighten me?
While incumbent Datuk Raja Ahmad Zainuddin lost by just two votes in the hotly-contested battle for the post of vice-president, Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin won one of the two deputy presidents' posts unopposed. Click to continue reading...

Kedah thumped Perak 3-0 last night in Bukit Jalil to record a historic treble. I wonder if they can go on to dominate Malaysian football for the next few years. They certainly have a good coach, and a young talented team.
First half goals from Mohd Khyril Muhymeen and Marlon James deflated a Perak side, who didn't help themselves when skipper Ahmad Shahrul Azhar was sent off just before half time. Click to continue reading...

The 2ND 100PLUS-FAM NATIONAL FOOTBALL AWARDS are back and the top 5 nominees for each category are below. I wonder why they have to have 2 different MVP awards, one for local and one for foreign? Is it because if there was only 1 MVP award, none of our locals would make it into the list?
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Kedah are bang on course for a historic treble, after a fine 2-0 win over Terengganu. They always say 2-0 leads are tricky, but it was good enough for them, with Nelson Martin and Hasmawi Hassan scoring the goals.

Kedah: Mohd Helmi Eliza, Shafizan Hashim, A.Victor, Cornelius Hugging, V.Thirumurugan, Ahmad Fauzi Shaari (Bunyamin Omar), Nelson Martin (sabri Abu), K.

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Afshin Ghotbi recently left his position as South Korean assistant coach to take over Iranian club Persepolis. Born in Iran, the 43 year-old left his homeland for America in 1977 and went to the 1998 World Cup with the United States and the 2002 and 2006 World Cups with South Korea. He spoke to John Duerden of goal.com (extracts): Practical problems of the 2007 Asian Cup: First of all, you have Click to continue reading...